Woo-hoo, the clocks go back to GMT this weekend!

V F said:
does anyone know how many clocks they've got and had to change? I was counting them all and it came to 20
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I've not done any yet as the ones that count change themselves, but I guess I will, at some point, do 2. The microwave and the car.
 
The sun sets earlier the further you go north in the winter and rises later. The days are shorter. In extremis, the North Pole is dark from sometime in October until sometime in March. The further you go north and the closer we get to the Winter Solstice, the bigger the variance between north and south.

Currently the sun sets in Scotland around 6 mins earlier than it does in Southern England.

However, the sun sets faster in the South. The fastest setting sun (shortest twilight) is at the equator. So although sunset is only 6 mins earlier in Scotland, it starts to go dark even earlier and the period through twilight and dusk is shorter.

It's also worse if you live in the east as the west of the UK gets more light reflected as the sun sets over the Atlantic.
 
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inogen said:
The sun sets earlier the further you go north in the winter and rises later. The days are shorter. In extremis, the North Pole is dark from sometime in October until sometime in March. The further you go north and the closer we get to the Winter Solstice, the bigger the variance between north and south.

Currently the sun sets in Scotland around 6 mins earlier than it does in Southern England.
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It’s way more than that, closer to 30 mins
 
Feek said:
I'm so pleased that we'll be back to GMT (UTC, Z, etc) this coming weekend.

We invented time, we invented Greenwich, we invented longitude and we invented clocks*

We'll be back to proper time again... BST can go swivel.

Everyone gets an extra hour sleep, everyone can be happy. GMT is the bestest!

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*some of this may not be entirely factual
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Like clockwork every year without fail. :)
 
inogen said:
The sun sets earlier the further you go north in the winter and rises later. The days are shorter. In extremis, the North Pole is dark from sometime in October until sometime in March. The further you go north and the closer we get to the Winter Solstice, the bigger the variance between north and south.

Currently the sun sets in Scotland around 6 mins earlier than it does in Southern England.

However, the sun sets faster in the South. The fastest setting sun (shortest twilight) is at the equator. So although sunset is only 6 mins earlier in Scotland, it starts to go dark even earlier and the period through twilight and dusk is shorter.

It's also worse if you live in the east as the west of the UK gets more light reflected as the sun sets over the Atlantic.
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For the benefit of @V F that doesn't mean it gets darker an hour and a 30/45 minutes today than it did yesterday.
 
Surveyor said:
For the benefit of @V F that doesn't mean it gets darker an hour and a 30/45 minutes today than it did yesterday.
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Hmmm, well as it is actually getting darker and quicker up north than down south and even in the summer months time of darkness can vary day to day and hour to hour depending on the weather (eg bad light stops cricket), it's perfectly understandable that someone might perceive such a change.

I grew up near Liverpool and then moved to Hertfordshire. Perceived sunset in the summer is noticeably earlier in the east of the country. It goes from dusk to dark much more quickly. Though you won't see that on sunset timetables.
 
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meh - I'm sure I've been watching Wimbledon later at night or maybe some other live coverage of events (in England) when it looks darker than what it is here (Edinburgh)

is that right? :o
 
inogen said:
Hmmm, well as it is actually getting darker and quicker up north than down south and even in the summer months time of darkness can vary day to day and hour to hour depending on the weather (eg bad light stops cricket), it's perfectly understandable that someone might perceive such a change.

I grew up near Liverpool and then moved to Hertfordshire. Perceived sunset in the summer is noticeably earlier in the east of the country. It goes from dusk to dark much more quickly. Though you won't see that on sunset timetables.
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@V F told us in similar conditions it got dark 30/45 minutes earlier today if you ignore the clocks changing.
 
V F said:
The difference here today is quite unreal. Almost 4pm and the houselights are already on. Yes it's terribly overcast but you can see the massive change already. Wasn't normally until 5:30 - 5:45pm the lights went on for badly overcast days
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Is it dark yet?
 
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